January 10, 2018 Executive Committee Call Minutes

Present:
Mike Jones
Don Thibeau, Executive Director
George Fletcher
John Bradley
Nat Sakimura
Adam Dawes

Absent:
(none)

Visitors:
Mike Leszcz, OpenID Foundation Staff
Tom Smedinghoff, Locke Lord LLP


1.       OpenID Certification Program Roadmap
We walked through the detailed 2019 Certification Program Roadmap deck that Don 
prepared.  The deck was a result of extensive consultations with the 
certification participants and OBIE.  It detailed proposals for operating and 
expanding both the existing OpenID Connect certification test suite and taking 
over operation of the FAPI test suite.  While some details continue to be 
worked out as we go, we appear to be on track to begin offering FAPI 
certifications in April.

We plan to price the FAPI Certifications such that they will more than cover 
our costs (whereas we are presently losing money on the existing certification 
program).  The current thinking is that for FAPI certifications, we would 
charge non-members $2500 per profile and members $500 per profile.  Don will 
also investigate whether it makes sense to make some adjustments to the OpenID 
Connect certification pricing and make a proposal.

OBIE plans to guarantee that their members will perform FAPI certifications in 
2019 - providing the OIDF a minimum guaranteed FAPI revenue stream to get 
started with.  Don will secure a contract for these OIBE-facilitated 
certifications soon.

We are adding certification profiles for OP-Initiated Login, Session 
Management, Front-Channel Logout, Back-Channel Logout, and Refresh Token 
Behaviors to the Python certification code base during 2019.  Much of this work 
is already done.

We have added several additional certification contractors to the team, 
including one to back-stop Hans and one to back-stop Roland.  Some of the team 
will also be assisting Joseph Heenan with the FAPI and CIBA certification work.

Roland Hedberg submitted a proposal to represent us at three conferences this 
year.  Don will negotiate with Roland about which conferences and what levels 
of funding make sense.  The EC definitely wants Roland to come to EIC, where 
the entire certification team will be assembled.

Mike and Adam objected to the introduction of new "OpenID self-certified" 
branding in the deck.  Pending any further discussions, we should stay with the 
existing "OpenID Certified" branding.

Despite our long-term goal to operate a single certification program, we do not 
have funds or resources allocated in 2019 to replacing any Python tests with 
equivalent Java tests or vice versa.  We also don't have any resources 
allocated to certification of specifications by working groups other than 
OpenID Connect and FAPI. (The FAPI CIBA profile does use the iGov CIBA spec.)  
All of this is subject to change with the addition of resources and directed 
funding.

There was a list of about two dozen potentially relevant events that we could 
participate in.  Don will schedule a separate call for the purpose of sorting 
out who will cover what events.


2.       Board Elections
The individual and corporate board elections have started.  Nominations are now 
open.


3.       Libraries Program
Some directed funding is expected to accelerate our RP library development.  We 
have libraries in Python and Java now.


4.       Budget Update
We are in good budget shape.  We have been carefully husbanding financial 
resources over the past years.  That enables us to pursue new opportunities 
such certification expansion without requiring new directed funding.  Outside 
the certification expansion, there are no new substantial changes to our budget.


5.       GDPR
We have done most of our GDPR work.  We have not yet completed our GDPR 
self-certification.

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